Sure, it can be done. Teranex or Arri's Relativity will un-do the 3-2 pulldown and re-assemble the pairs of fields that came from each film frame, to give you 24p. There's a resolution loss from having gone through interlace, which may or may not be an issue depending on the content.

You don't say where you're located, but out here, FotoKem in Burbank has Relativity. Lots of places have Teranex.

Cut together the 1080i stuff you want, with handles, and only convert what you need. Treat the conversions as if they were the originals in your final EDL.

Sure, it can be done. Teranex or Arri's Relativity will un-do the 3-2 pulldown and re-assemble the pairs of fields that came from each film frame, to give you 24p. There's a resolution loss from having gone through interlace, which may or may not be an issue depending on the content.

You don't say where you're located, but out here, FotoKem in Burbank has Relativity. Lots of places have Teranex.

Cut together the 1080i stuff you want, with handles, and only convert what you need. Treat the conversions as if they were the originals in your final EDL.

-- J.S.

I am located in Long Beach, CA.

Relativity & Teranex are they apple to apples? is one better than the other?

My workflow for this is to capture the HDCAM tape to a hard drive (well, it'll need to be captured to a RAID as single hard drives are too slow to capture uncompressed 1080) as uncompressed 1080i 59.94. I then use Cinema Tools (part of FInal Cut Studio) to remove the 3:2 pulldown. Most telecine houses place the A frame on either video frame 0 or 5. Of course, the simplest way to do all this is to find a post house in your area that can do it for you as they can answer a lot of questions that will come up.